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Barbel (SS-580) as modified with sail planes. The bow sonars are SQS-4 above and BQR-2 below the torpedo tubes. The sonar room was the middle deck space just abaft the mast shown, below the control room/attack center. The small space just abaft the attack center was the Supplementary Radio room (ELINT space); the radio center was abaft it. Masts, fore to aft, are: No.1 & 2 periscopes;BRD-6/ECM mast; BPS-12 radar; BLR-1 ECM (with VLF loop alongside, shown as dashed line); and snorkel induction and exhaust. Note the concentration of batteries amidships, typical of three deck submarines. The structure above the engines is the muffler. Not visible in these drawings is the line of air-emitter piping, port and starboard, close to the keel, providing an acoustic shield around the hull.

Head for the "Deep Feeling".Barbel (SS-580) slips into the water as she is launched on 19 July 1958, at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, New Hampshire. Equipped with conventional power, she is shown moving down the ways to join her other sub sisters as an integral part of the U.S. Navy's underwater fleet.

USN photo # USN 710226, courtesy of the National Museum of the U.S. Navy, via flickr.com.Photo added 11/26/15.

LCDR John T. Regan, former Commanding Officer of Barbel (SS-580) is seen with his wife Jeannine C. Regan at Mare Island after the Change of Command where is was relived by LCDR A. Van Saun for the ship at Mare Island on 6 August 1976.

USN photo # 138820-8-76, courtesy of Darryl L. Baker.

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PDF of Change of Command program, History & CO's of the Barbel (SS-580).

Barbel (SS-580) and Darter (SS-576), at Sub base Pearl Harbor, June 1985. The Topside Watch on the Darter is TMSN(SS) Russ Dzielak and TMSA Jeff Buzzard. Directly
astern of the duo is the Queenfish (SSN-651).

Japanese shipyard workers from SSK Shipyard in Sasebo Japan. They were working on replacing one of the diesel engines.

Photo courtesy of Mike Robinson, USN, Retired.

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Barbel's (SS-580) calorie powered galley; circa mid to late 80's.

Photo courtesy of Mike Robinson, USN, Retired.

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Cleaning the airlock; circa mid to late 80's.

Photo courtesy of Mike Robinson, USN, Retired.

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The tug Nogalesen (YTB-777) assists the Barbel (SS-580) as she approaches the pier at Polaris Point, Guam in April, 1987.

Photo by Dave Johnston.

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At Dry Dock No.2 which begin to fill with water, the workers are manually turning the swivels to increase the flow. On the Barbel (SS-580), crew members stand at the railing of the attack submarine as the dry dock in which it is positioned is filled with water to refloat the vessel following repairs. The Barbel is completing a Docking Selected Restrictive Availability (DSRA) at Saebo Heavy Industries on 6 October 1988.

Official USN photo # DN-ST-90-11773, by PH1 Brian R. Lee, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil.

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Crew members stand at the railing of the attack submarine Barbel (SS-580) as the dry dock in which it is positioned is filled with water to refloat the vessel following repairs. The Barbel is completing a Docking Selected Restrictive Availability (DSRA) at Saebo Heavy Industries on 6 October 1988.

Official USN photo # DN-ST-90-11774, by PH1 Brian R. Lee, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil.

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Crew members man the rails aboard the attack submarine Barbel (SS-580) on 24 October 1988 on her last day in active service, on 24 October 1988.

US Naval Historical Center.

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Port side view of the Barbel (SS-580) underway in this undated photo.

USN photo courtesy of Wendell Royce McLaughlin Jr.

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Newspaper clipping of the accidental loss of three of Barbel's (SS-580) crew on 1 May 1989 off Kyushu, Japan, a wave washes three sailors from the deck of the boat as it conducts surface operations. Two of the sailors drown and the third is rescued.

Photograph courtesy of Ron Reeves, HTC, USNR (ret.)

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Active duty and veteran submariners stand together at the 29th annual "Tolling The Boats" Memorial Service held at the World War II National Submarine Memorial-West, Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach, Calif. 29 May 2006. The ceremony honored members of the Silent Service who gave their lives during World War II and the Cold War for their country and the cause of freedom. On 1 May 1989 off Kyushu, Japan, a wave washes three sailors from the deck of the Barbel (SS-580) as it conducts surface operations. Two of the sailors drown and the third is rescued.

Barbel (SS-580) posing as a mock-up of the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine the Alabama (SSBN-731) for the Disney film Crimson Tide. Fitted with a plywood sail built over the hole in the deck, the Barbel assumes a new mission as a backdrop for the film's pier-side shots.

Photo taken from Warship Boneyards, by Kit and Carolyn Bonner & submitted by Robert Hurst.

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Barbel (SS-580) as she lies like a dead whale against a pier owned by Southwest Marine in San Pedro, California, in October 1999.

Photo taken from Warship Boneyards, by Kit and Carolyn Bonner & submitted by Robert Hurst.